Water Purification by Ozone Classic Reprint

Excerpt from Water Purification by Ozone In 1785 it was discovered by'van Marum that a disruptive dis charge of electricity through air is accompanied by a peculiar odor. The cause of this odor was not known until 1840 when Sconbein, a swiss chemist. Discovered it to be a gas then unknown to chemistry. Sconbein found that the new gas which he called ozone. Is an allotro pic form of oxygen produced by the passage of an electric current through ordinary oxygen, and that it is very unstable, decomposing easily into ordinary oxygen. It was found that because of this in stability ozone is a very active oxidizing agent. As such it has been found applicable as a bleacher and as a purifier. Of particular im portance is its use in sterilizing drinking water. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.